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I'd Rather Be an Old Man's Sweetheart (Than a Young Man's Fool). -- Candi Staton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul. -- Richard Ellmann
I was never an Angry Young Man. I am angry only when I hit my thumb with a hammer. -- Kingsley Amis
I remember the first check I got from The Who's recording [of "Young Man Blues"]. I'd been getting checks for $10 and $15 and so forth, and this one was for a much larger amount than that. I thought it was a mistake. -- Mose Allison
Credit is a young man's capital. -- Oscar Wilde
Obsession is a young man's game. -- Michael Caine
You are quite unnecessary, young man! -- Antonin Artaud
Young man, make your name worth something. -- Andrew Carnegie
I feel like a young man of 15. -- Nelson Mandela
The wise man once said invest young -- Warren Buffett
I am a regular young man surrounded... -- Barrington Irving
Spring makes everything young again except man. -- Charles Francis Richter
I was an uncommonly unattractive young man. -- Alfred Hitchcock
No young man ever thinks he shall die. -- William Hazlitt
A young man married is a man that's marred. -- William Shakespeare
A man is as young as his spinal column. -- Joseph Pilates
As a young, Black man, I absolutely feel responsible. -- Kofi Siriboe
It well becomes a young man to be modest. -- Plautus
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. -- Homer
A young man respects and looks up to his teachers. -- Seneca the Younger
I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man. -- Kim Hunter
A young man ain't nothin' in the world these days -- Mose Allison
An old young man, will be a young old man. -- Benjamin Franklin
Inside every man there is a poet who died young. -- Stefan Kanfer
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.] -- Plautus
No man knows he is young while he is young. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
How can a young man like to wear a beard? -- Dodie Smith
Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric. -- Tom Ridge
Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.] -- George Herbert
Young man: Be honest; train yourself for useful work; love God. -- Milton S. Hershey
A young man's ambition, can there be a more fleeting prospect? -- David Baldacci
Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns. -- Paul Gleason
And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. -- Terry Pratchett
Old man, 40 years old against young hungry man from Great Britain! -- Vitali Klitschko
A young man not yet, an elder man not at all. -- Francis Bacon
But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. -- Thomas Jefferson
A man should be jailed for telling lies to the young. -- Lillian Hellman
The young man must store up, the old man must use. -- Seneca the Younger
I think the pop industry is still a young man's game. -- Paul McCartney
Golf - a young man's vice and an old man's penance. -- Irvin S. Cobb
a young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow -- Markus Zusak
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946 --
Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after. -- Taliesin
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. -- E. W. Howe
Should I assume the lure is a certain attractive young dead man? -- Rachel Vincent
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician. -- Bill Dedman
Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God. -- James Weldon Johnson
I rarely meet a young man who doesn't already think he is. -- Hillary Clinton
Some things I thought were important for a young man to know. -- Joe Paterno
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country. -- Horace Greeley
Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game -- Bill Klem
I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man. -- Evan Parker
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. -- Steven Brust
In spring a young mans fancy turns to a fancy young man. -- Mart Crowley
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world. -- Samuel Dash
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart's Desire. -- Neil Gaiman
I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure. -- Andrew Vachss
A man dies too young if he leaves any wine in his cellar. -- Andre Simon
I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors. -- Nathan Bedford Forrest
Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest. -- J. G. Holland
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing. -- Tennessee Williams
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. -- John von Neumann
My goal as a young man, to be fat, famous and financially fixed by 50. -- Kinky Friedman
On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. -- Hafez
In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived. -- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
We lost a young man's life and it begins to represent so many things. -- Loretta Lynch
Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent. -- Anthony Trollope
A young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money. -- James Montgomery Bailey
Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women. -- Leo Tolstoy
The more talented a young man is, the earlier the recruiting process usually begins. -- Billy Kennedy
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Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever. -- Munir Butt
Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
John Redwood is a young man but, let's face it, so was Margaret Thatcher in 1975. -- Edward Leigh
Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says. -- Gordon Ramsay
Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly. -- Eugene Ormandy
I think he [Tiger Woods] is a determined young man who really wants to play. -- Jack Nicklaus
The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate. -- Andrew Carnegie
I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby. -- Ruskin Bond
I'll keep waiting because I'm a young man. I'm not as old as they think. -- Sergio Martinez
Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. -- Augustus
I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president. -- John F. Kerry
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. -- Paul Gauguin
Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,' -- William McDonough
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. -- Victor Hugo
Old Tubal Cain was a man of might In the days when earth was young. -- Charles Mackay
As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football. -- Dan Marino
Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. -- Henry David Thoreau
Wounded pride can take a rich young man far who is surrounded by flatterers since birth. -- Stendhal
The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. -- John D. Rockefeller
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! -- Drew Bundini Brown
Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young. -- Augustus
I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game. -- Kevin Bacon
Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old. -- Michael Caine
I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him. -- Dick Cavett
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal. -- Charles Lamb
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.] -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
Ain't nothin' an ol' man can do but bring me a message from a young one. -- Moms Mabley
This young man is an exceptionally gifted and talented violinist ... He is a first class talent ... -- Ruggiero Ricci
Touring is a young man's game, but after 30 years of it, I want to stay home. -- Barry Manilow
I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused. -- Miles Davis
Make copies, young man, many copies. You can only become a good artist by copying the masters. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion. -- Josh Billings
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. -- Robert Southey
Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist. -- Enrico Fermi
The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat. -- Peter Grimwade
When a man becomes old, his greed becomes young: sleep grows heavy at the time of morning. -- Saib Tabrizi
Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. -- Bob Dylan
I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. -- Peter Benchley
A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable. -- Zebulon Pike
With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it. -- P. T. Barnum
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. -- Laurence Olivier
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. -- C. S. Lewis
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation. -- Chinua Achebe
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero. -- Walt Whitman
I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name. -- Edward Kennedy

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